U. S. Grant

plural U. S. Grants

1. alternativeAlternative form of U.S. Grant.

   He pulled from his wallet two U. S. Grants.

   2016, Richard Bird Baker, Cowboy Poetry from a Short-horn Tenderfoot, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, →ISBN

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   With shaking fingers she showed Bernie two new crisp fifty-dollar bills tucked into the lining of her glove. New bills always seemed to have such a lovely pale green colour, apple-green. “Real U. S. Grants, baby,” she told him, bucking herself up as she went, peeling the corners back so there could be no mistaking them for lowly fives.

   1961, Ross Russell, “If You Can’t Get Five—”, in The Sound, New York, N.Y.: E. P. Dutton & Co., →LCCN, →OCLC, part 2, page 181

   Holits pays in cash—first, last, and the hundred-and-fifty deposit. He counts out bills of fifty-dollar denomination while I watch. U. S. Grants, Harley calls them, though he’s never seen many.

   1982 July 19, Raymond Carver, “The Bridle”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Aug 2014, page 31, column 2

   She gave him a U. S. Grant. / “All right, now thank you, big tipper, I can buy me and Twinkie plenty of toys with this. It makes me wonder two things though.” / “What’s that?” / “What did you do for Jimmy to pimp you with this fifty-dollar bill?[…]”

   2010, Katrina Denise Hines, “Mr. Beauty Shop”, in On the Quest to Find Mr. Right, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 117